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This module provides an interface to the POSIX calls for tty I/O control. For a
complete description of these calls, see the POSIX or Unix manual pages. It is
only available for those Unix versions that support POSIX termios style tty
I/O control (and then only if configured at installation time).

All functions in this module take a file descriptor fd as their first
argument. This can be an integer file descriptor, such as returned by
sys.stdin.fileno(), or a file object, such as sys.stdin itself.

This module also defines all the constants needed to work with the functions
provided here; these have the same name as their counterparts in C. Please
refer to your system documentation for more information on using these terminal
control interfaces.

Return a list containing the tty attributes for file descriptor fd, as
follows: [iflag,oflag,cflag,lflag,ispeed,ospeed,cc] where cc is a
list of the tty special characters (each a string of length 1, except the
items with indices VMIN and VTIME, which are integers when
these fields are defined). The interpretation of the flags and the speeds as
well as the indexing in the cc array must be done using the symbolic
constants defined in the termios module.

Set the tty attributes for file descriptor fd from the attributes, which is
a list like the one returned by tcgetattr(). The when argument
determines when the attributes are changed: TCSANOW to change
immediately, TCSADRAIN to change after transmitting all queued output,
or TCSAFLUSH to change after transmitting all queued output and
discarding all queued input.

Here’s a function that prompts for a password with echoing turned off. Note the
technique using a separate tcgetattr() call and a try ...
finally statement to ensure that the old tty attributes are restored
exactly no matter what happens: